Rocks and Relationships

   Are we all engaged in a sort of balancing act: Keeping a finger on pulse of what is happening in the world but not letting it drown out the more important eternal story also happening? In any case, I hope that this is true.  As I’ve written before, we continue to watch and pray; not knowing yet whether this IS the final cycle being played out which will go to Messiah’s return, or if YHWH may yet intervene and send a deliverance of some kind, allowing us to cycle around again. This pattern is seen most clearly in the Book of Judges, but also in a number of recuring themes throughout the Word.

   I have just returned from Kentucky where I was asked to teach over several days at a Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles gathering. (It is also called the Feast of Ingathering and the Feast of Booths.) What an honor and privilege to share what we in Set Apart Ministries have been learning and living now these 21 years. I know many readers in WCN don’t really know much about this Feast, or any of the Feasts of the LORD for that matter.  This one is the last of the seven.   It is the culmination of the story of Messiah, beginning with His First Presence here on earth as our Passover Lamb and ending with this Feast of Ingathering, also called the Marriage Feast of the Lamb. 

   A paramount concern is preparing as His Bride in these chaotic times. We must not let the chaos distract us ...